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Spiders in Space

  • February 13, 2013
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

NASA’s first spider astronauts were Anita and Arabella, who in 1973 spun webs on Skylab, the first U.S. space station. Since then, scientists have put spiders on the space shuttle and the International Space Station to see how they adapt to life in orbit.

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